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[[WMG: Ranma is a MtF Transsexual]]

* I for one love the idea of this and could think of a very good set of arguments for it or against it. I hate to be very critical, but the one you put forth was fairly appalling, to START with, you might consider dropping the gender ambiguous pronoun slander, for two reasons really, the first, if you really believe Ranma is MtF, you might dignify her by using the correct pronouns she would want. second though, they are sort of an eye sore, they or them, despite being plural usually works just fine if you need gender neutral, lots of Languages screw around with plurality. moving right along. the 'infamous pretty womanhood was very played for laughs. It doesn't shed a lot of light on Ranma's character or feelings at all, the only slightly plausible explanation is that Ranma has a very narrow dirt poor view of women. The anime isn't really a good source for any theories in my mind, It takes many liberties with the characters. I think the best scenario in mind for this idea is that Ranma has gender identity disorder and rejects it, not that Ranma's secretly knows she likes being a woman but is hiding it. I can really see the beginning chapters of Genma's daughter being plausible for canon Ranma, In that confronting this problem would be extremely and unbearably difficult for her, it's just plausible that Ranma might consider being male 'hard' because of his fathers words or even his own sheer bravado and cultural upbringing, but even baring that, the magical nature of the curse leaves open the question of weather it could maliciously make someone desire to be who they're not, rather than just be inconvenient. Theres plenty of wiggle room to push it in either direction. Certainly, I wonder how skeptics of this theory might explain why Ranma so frequently forgets what sex he is in at any given moment, at the very least it implies that Ranma's female form doesn't irritate her and draw her attention to the fact that she's in the wrong body again.

It all makes sense.

In other words: creatures that fall into the springs will not be cursed if there's no spring around that would serve as a cure. If you grab a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]] or some other animal that has not yet drowned in a Jusenkyo spring, it will not be cursed no matter which spring you throw it in. If you ''drown'' it, it'll create a Spring of Drowned Penguin, and from that point on, penguins will be considered "fair game" for all the Jusenkyo springs.

Shampoo calling Akane perverted by saying she would like? A transpose of real-life homophobic comments after accidentally outing oneself while being incredibly careful not to do so.

[[WMG: Rumiko Takahashi wrote Ranma1/2 as a metaphor for self-acceptance and overcoming internalized homophobia (or biphobia).]]

Shampoo calling Akane perverted by saying she would like? A transpose of real life homophobic comments after accidentally outing oneself while being incredibly careful not to do so.

Soun trained them all, either because he was less mysoginist than Genma, to keep his promise to him, or because after Akane his wife couldn't get pregnant anymore (or a combination of the three), and the older sisters became good enough to project a BattleAura. Kasumi however gave up after her mother's death because someone had to do the houseworks and couldn't balance martial arts with doing the chores and caring for her younger sisters and a depressed father, while Nabiki decided she wasn't interested-or that [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass it was better for her to be mistaken for weak and untrained and thus pretended to give up the art]], and did a good enough job that even Akane forgot she's a martial artist.

The only StreetFighter character that very likely ''actually is'' an expy is Makoto to Akane, but when playing the game it is very easy to pretend that one of the characters is the Ranma counterpart. There's Kumon Ryu<->Guile, Ranma<->Ken, Ryoga<->Ryu, Ukyo<->Ibuki, Kasumi<->Rose, Nabiki<->Juri (or Nabiki<->Crimson Viper, with Kodachi<->Juri, depending on which version you subscribe to), and possibly even Mousse<->Vega. Can anybody think of other fits?

Also, Creator/RumikoTakahashi is stated to have an affection for her. Which for a character means God loves her and she knows it, and that in turn would explain why she's grown progressively less subtle about being a bitch over the course of the series. This is taken UpToEleven when both the 'dead mother' and 'middle child' cards are pulled to sucker Ranma (and probably the audience) into believing she's got a FreudianExcuse or two, but even those aren't things she genuinely cares about, just more pity party meal tickets. In effect, her PlotArmor is so thick you can't even hurt her feelings.

Like the above two, they are very similar in looks and personality. The biggest difference seems to be how they were raised, Akane was the youngest and practiced martial arts in a Dojo while Kagome was the oldest in a temple being a shrine maiden. Besides, why should only the male sides of the love triangle be reincarnated? The two are way to similar to have it be just chance that they are both in love with half men that do the impossible and constantly pound said man into the ground even when it isn't necessary.

*** Or [[MPreg not]].

* The flaw with this logic is that you're assuming the law would even get involved with this sort of situation in the Ranma½ universe. There's no indication that the police or anybody cares about the crazy fights or other weirdness of the martial artists. Odds are if a police officer did get involved they'd just look at the contract, shrug, and let things go on.

* The flaw with this logic is that you're assuming the law would even get involved with this sort of situation in the Ranma½ universe. There's no indication that the police or anybody cares about the crazy fights or other weirdness of the martial artists. Odds are if a police officer did get involved they'd just look at the contract, shrug, and let things go on.

[[WMG: Ranma has some sort of AmbiguousDisorder]]
Nekoken aside, Ranma seem have some sort of disorder. To me at least. My guess? He has some kind of form of Autism.

[[WMG: Ranma has some sort of AmbiguousDisorder]]

[[WMG: Ranma has a AmbiguousDisorder]]